Moxie - Softcover

Poppe, Alex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1948954028 ISBN 13: 9781948954020

Publisher: Tortoise Books, 2019

Synopsis

Jax, a magazine model, has had half her face destroyed in a bomb blast. Drowning in whiskey and self-loathing, she must rebuild her life now that her beauty is gone. Part love letter to New York, part social justice commentary, Moxie is a timely and raw portrayal of the sometimes self-destructive search for identity and redemption.

About this title

About the Author:

Alex Poppe is the author of two works of fiction Girl, World by Laughing Fire Press (2017) and Moxie by Tortoise Books (2019). Girl, World was named a 35 Over 35 Debut Book Award winner, First Horizon Award finalist, Montaigne Medal finalist, short-listed for the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize and was awarded an Honorable Mention in General Fiction from the Eric Hoffer Awards. Her short fiction has been a finalist for Glimmer Train's Family Matters contest, a nominee for the Pushcart Prize and commended for the Baker Prize among others. Her non-fiction was named a Best of the Net nominee (2016), a finalist for Hot Metal Bridge's Social Justice Writing contest and has appeared in Bust and Bella Caledonia among others. She is an academic writing lecturer at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani and is working on her third book of fiction with support from Can Serrat International Art Residency and Duplo-LineaDe Costa Artist in Residency programs. When she is not being tossed from the back of food aid trucks or dining with pistol packing Kurdish hit men, she writes.

Review:

"Poppe's writing is brisk, raw, and unflinching..." - Booklist

"I tore through Moxie. Alex Poppe has created a character whose jagged contradictions make you stare... [Jax's] a profane alcoholic with a poet's eye and turn of phrase, and her use of language elevates this book." - Zoe Zolbrod, author of The Telling and Currency

"Wow. I drank down the raw, profane, world-be-damned voice of Jacinda, aka Jax (the sexy protagonist of Poppe's high-octane first novel) in one long gulp." - Lesley Dormen, author of The Best Place to Be: A Novel in Stories.

"Moxie is an indie press book that deserves as much attention as it can get. It's smart, fierce, funny, and eventually, ever so slightly uplifting." - Read Her Like an Open Book

"Sentence fragments litter Moxie as a kind of linguistic shrapnel, accompanied by sharp, descriptive moments that leave the reader off-kilter as Jax goes about her day...Poppe has a deft hand with crude language and body horror and twists these moments into graceful linguistic play ..." - The Massachusetts Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Tortoise Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1948954028
• ISBN 13: 9781948954020
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240